Possible Positive and Negative Impacts of Business Networking on Innovation and Excellence -- Sustainable Altruism for Business Networking -- Ecology of Innovation in Organizational Settings.- Dimensions of Business Network Effectiveness and Motivations for Business Networking.

This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship. It presents an overview of diaspora concepts from an economic perspective, and analyzes the global-economic and societal effects...

This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective. The book assumes a novel theoretical angle based on the interpretation of networks as multiple systems, and advances the...

Chapter 1: Rethinking Chinese Business: Problematics, Issues and Questions -- Chapter 2: Centripetal Authority, Differential Networks: The Social Organization of Chinese Firms in Singapore -- Chapter 3: Guanxi, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks.- Chapter 4: Personalism and Paternalism in...

This book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of EU regional cohesion based on a network and clusters approach. The author explores the question if and how the presence of network structures supports the effectiveness of transformation in EU regions, in particular with a focus on...

This volume features contributions to agent-based computational modeling from the social sciences and computer sciences. It presents applications of methodologies and tools, focusing on the uses, requirements, and constraints of agent-based models used by social scientists. Topics include...

Legal and Functional Perspective of Freight Forwarding in Multimodal Transport Chains -- New Industrial Economics, Intermediation Theory, and the Intermediary Perspective -- Models of network Structure and the Network Perspective -- A Closer Look on Contemporary Social Network Analysis --...

De Lange suggests a new contextually linked building block model to develop theories of the firm in the field of strategy and organizations. Using this approach, she proposes two models: one that is a realistic American version and another that is a futuristic sustainable model. Both are new...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the significance of networks among the firms operative in the contemporary Russian software industry in the St. Petersburg region.